Working My Way Around the World
Working My Way Around the World by Harry Alverson Franck is available here as the complete text, split into 1145 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Working my Way Around the World by Harry Alverson Franck. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #55129.
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Working My Way Around the World
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- Chapter I “Crossin’ the Pond Wi’ the Bullocks”
- Chapter II “On the Road” in the British Isles
- Chapter III In Clean Holland
- Chapter IV Not Welcome in the Fatherland
- Chapter V Tramping Through France
- Chapter VI Climbing Over the Alps
- Chapter VII In Sunny Italy
- Chapter VIII Among the Arabs
- Chapter IX A Lonely Journey
- Chapter X Cities of Old
- Chapter XI The Wilds of Palestine
- Chapter XII Cairo and the Pyramids
- Chapter XIII A Trip Up the Nile
- Chapter XIV Stealing a March on the Far East
- Chapter XV In the Land of the Wandering Prince
- Chapter XVI The Merry Circus Days
- Chapter XVII Three Wanderers in India
- Chapter XVIII The Ways of the Hindu
- Chapter XIX In the Heart of India
- Chapter XX Beyond the Ganges
- Chapter XXI Tramping Through Burma
- Chapter XXII In the Jungles of Burma
- Chapter XXIII In Siam
- Chapter XXIV Hungry Days
- Chapter XXV Following the Menam River to Bangkok
- Chapter XXVI On the Way to Hong-Kong
- Chapter XXVII Wandering in Japan
- Chapter XXVIII Homeward Bound
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- Spending
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- Sixteen
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